OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Wildland Fire is 6. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Effects of fuel spatial distribution on wildland fire behaviour	49
An empirical-based model for predicting the forward spread rate of wildfires in eucalypt forests	32
Understanding fire regimes in Europe	31
Long-term trends in wildfire damages in California	29
LEF-YOLO: a lightweight method for intelligent detection of four extreme wildfires based on the YOLO framework	26
Assessing the predictive efficacy of six machine learning algorithms for the susceptibility of Indian forests to fire	22
Pre-season fire management planning: the use of Potential Operational Delineations to prepare for wildland fire events	22
Evidence for lack of a fuel effect on forest and shrubland fire rates of spread under elevated fire danger conditions: implications for modelling and management	22
Do you CBI what I see? The relationship between the Composite Burn Index and quantitative field measures of burn severity varies across gradients of forest structure	21
Soil moisture as an indicator of growing-season herbaceous fuel moisture and curing rate in grasslands	20
Effects of altered fire intervals on critical timber production and conservation values	20
Forest fire smoke detection under complex backgrounds using TRPCA and TSVB	20
Comparing calibrated statistical and machine learning methods for wildland fire occurrence prediction: a case study of human-caused fires in Lac La Biche, Alberta, Canada	19
Bureaucratic inertia in dealing with annual forest fires in Indonesia	19
Using soil moisture information to better understand and predict wildfire danger: a review of recent developments and outstanding questions	17
High-severity wildfire potential – associating meteorology, climate, resource demand and wildfire activity with preparedness levels	16
Wildfire hazard mapping in the eastern Mediterranean landscape	15
Laboratory study on the suppression of smouldering peat wildfires: effects of flow rate and wetting agent	15
An analysis of fatalities from forest fires in China, 1951–2018	15
Integrating remotely sensed fuel variables into wildfire danger assessment for China	15
Guidelines for effective evaluation and comparison of wildland fire occurrence prediction models	14
Converging and diverging burn rates in North American boreal forests from the Little Ice Age to the present	14
On the non-monotonic behaviour of fire spread	14
Characterisation of initial fire weather conditions for large spring wildfires in Alberta, Canada	14
Projection of future wildfire emissions in western USA under climate change: contributions from changes in wildfire, fuel loading and fuel moisture	14

Forest fire and its key drivers in the tropical forests of northern Vietnam	14
How to build a firebreak to stop smouldering peat fire: insights from a laboratory-scale study	14
Towards resilient health systems for increasing climate extremes: insights from the 2019–20 Australian bushfire season	14
Can ash from smoldering fires increase peatland soil pH?	14
Indigenous cultural burning had less impact than wildfire on the threatened Backwater grevillea (	13
Application of compositional data analysis to determine the effects of heating mode, moisture status and plant species on pyrolysates	13
Effect of fuel spatial resolution on predictive wildfire models	12
Effect of moisture content and fuel type on emissions from vegetation using a steady state combustion apparatus	12
<i>Corrigendum to</i>: Integrating remotely sensed fuel variables into wildfire danger assessment for China	12
Characterisation of thunderstorms that caused lightning-ignited wildfires	12
Extent and effect of the 2019-20 Australian bushfires on upland peat swamps in the Blue Mountains, NSW	12
Quantifying merging fire behaviour phenomena using unmanned aerial vehicle technology	12
Drivers of California’s changing wildfires: a state-of-the-knowledge synthesis	12
What determines variation in remotely sensed fire severity? Consideration of remote sensing limitations and confounding factors	11
Modelling chamise fuel moisture content across California: a machine learning approach	11
Variability in pyrogenic carbon properties generated by different burning temperatures and peatland plant litters: implication for identifying fire intensity and fuel types	11
A critical review of fuel accumulation models used in Australian fire management	11
Patterns of wildfire risk in the United States from systematic operational risk assessments: how risk is characterised by land managers	11
Dynamic simulation of fire propagation in forests and rangelands using a GIS-based cellular automata model	11
Effects of different sampling strategies for unburned label selection in machine learning modelling of wildfire occurrence probability	10
Evaluating the relationships between wildfires and drought using machine learning	10
Regional estimation of dead fuel moisture content in southwest China based on a practical process-based model	10
Organisational influence on the co-production of fire science: overcoming challenges and realising opportunities	10
Disentangling the factors of spatio-temporal patterns of wildfire activity in south-eastern France	10
Modelling the daily probability of lightning-caused ignition in the Iberian Peninsula	10
Spontaneous ignition of soils: a multi-step reaction scheme to simulate self-heating ignition of smouldering peat fires	10
Collective action for managing wildfire risk across boundaries in forest and range landscapes: lessons from case studies in the western United States	10
Spatial databases and techniques to assist with prescribed fire management in the south-east Queensland bioregion	9
Deep peat fire persistently smouldering for weeks: a laboratory demonstration	9
GAMBUT field experiment of peatland wildfires in Sumatra: from ignition to spread and suppression	9
Potential conditions for fire occurrence in vegetation in the Peruvian Andes	9
Downscaled GCM climate projections of fire weather over Victoria, Australia. Part 2	9
Regional drought synchronised historical fires in dry forests of the Montane Cordillera Ecozone, Canada	9
Coupled fire-atmosphere simulation of the 2018 Camp Fire using WRF-Fire	9
Crown fuel consumption in Canadian boreal forest fires	9
Smoke emissions from the extreme wildfire events in central Portugal in October 2017	9
More smoke today for less smoke tomorrow? We need to better understand the public health benefits and costs of prescribed fire	9
Fire mosaics in south-west Australian forest landscapes	9
Predicting black spruce fuel characteristics with Airborne Laser Scanning (ALS)	8
Future expansion, seasonal lengthening and intensification of fire activity under climate change in southeastern France	8
Introduction to the Australian Fire Danger Rating System†	8
PeatFire: an agent-based model to simulate fire ignition and spreading in a tropical peatland ecosystem	8
An evaluation of empirical and statistically based smoke plume injection height parametrisations used within air quality models	8
Quantifying production of hot firebrands using a fire-resistant fabric	8
Bark charcoal reflectance may have the potential to estimate the heat delivered to tree boles by wildland fires	8
The role of decomposer communities in managing surface fuels: a neglected ecosystem service	8
Relationships between building features and wildfire damage in California, USA and Pedrógão Grande, Portugal	8
QES-Fire: a dynamically coupled fast-response wildfire model	8
Recent change of burned area associated with summer heat extremes over Iberia	8
An analysis of factors influencing structure loss resulting from the 2018 Camp Fire	7

Factors influencing the development of violent pyroconvection. Part I: fire size and stability	7
Themes and patterns in print media coverage of wildfires in the USA, Canada and Australia: 1986–2016	7
Suppression resources and their influence on containment of forest fires in Victoria	7
Mapping smouldering fire potential in boreal peatlands and assessing interactions with the wildland–human interface in Alberta, Canada	7
Atmospheric turbulent structures and fire sweeps during shrub fires and implications for flaming zone behaviour	7
Consistent, high-accuracy mapping of daily and sub-daily wildfire growth with satellite observations	7
On the intermittent nature of forest fire spread – Part 2	7
Wildfire does not affect the dung beetle diversity of high-altitude Mediterranean habitats	7
Traditional use of field burning in Ireland: history, culture and contemporary practice in the uplands	7
Different approaches make comparing studies of burn severity challenging: a review of methods used to link remotely sensed data with the Composite Burn Index	7
Long-term fire effects on vegetation and topsoil properties in beech forests of Manjaca Mountain (western Bosnia and Herzegovina)	7
Event-based quickflow simulation with OpenLISEM in a burned Mediterranean forest catchment	7
A note on fire weather indices	7
Signs of resilience in resprouting	7
A multi-scale assessment of fire scar mapping in the Great Victoria Desert of Western Australia	6
Improved logistic models of crown fire probability in Canadian conifer forests	6
Future regional increases in simultaneous large Western USA wildfires	6
Estimating dead fine fuel moisture content of forest surface, based on wireless sensor network and back-propagation neural network	6
A simple model indicates that there are sufficient water supply points for fighting forest fires in the Czech Republic	6
Estimation of post-fire vegetation recovery in boreal forests using solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) data	6
Wildland firefighters’ thermal exposure in relation to suppression tasks	6
An advanced approach for leaf flammability index estimation	6
A case-study of wildland fire management knowledge exchange: the barriers and facilitators in the development and integration of the Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System in Ontario, Canada	6
Firebrand transport from a novel firebrand generator: numerical simulation of laboratory experiments	6
Projecting live fuel moisture content via deep learning	6
Nature-based solutions to wildfires in rural landscapes of Southern Europe: let’s be fire-smart!	6
The effect of moisture content and thermal behaviour on the ignition of	6
Physics-based modelling of junction fires: parametric study	6
Comparison of vapour-exchange methods for predicting hourly twig fuel moisture contents of larch and birch stands in the Daxinganling Region, China	6
Measuring the long-term costs of uncharacteristic wildfire: a case study of the 2010 Schultz Fire in Northern Arizona	6
Parametric evaluation of heat transfer mechanisms in a WUI fire scenario	6
Extension of the Balbi fire spread model to include the field scale conditions of shrubland fires	6
Wildland fire prevention: the impact of the Modifying Industrial Operations Protocol on the growth of industrial forestry-caused wildland fires in Ontario, Canada	6
The importance of small fires for wildfire hazard in urbanised landscapes of the northeastern US	6
Development of gas signatures of smouldering peat wildfire from emission factors	6
Performance of operational fire spread models in California	6
Autumn precipitation: the competition with Santa Ana winds in determining fire outcomes in southern California	6
Rivers up in smoke: impacts of Australia’s 2019–2020 megafires on riparian systems	6
Use of the Wildland Fire Decision Support System (WFDSS) for full suppression and managed fires within the Southwestern Region of the US Forest Service	6
A multivariate approach to assess the structural determinants of large wildfires: evidence from a Mediterranean country	6